Marine Molluscs of the Island of Curaçao:(With 5 Text-Figures)
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BIJDRAGEN TOT DE KENNIS DER FAUNA VAN CURAÇAO. 1920. Resultaten eener Reis van Dr. C. J. VAN DER HORST in Marine Molluscs of the Island of Curaçao BY Tera van Benthem Jutting Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. (With 5 text-figures). molluscs which I will in the The account on West-Indian give following pages, was started as of collected Dr. BOEKE in the course of Dr. HORST a consequence material, by J. 1905, by C. J. VAN DER during April and May of 1920 and by engineer G. J. H. MOLENGRAAFF since 1921. Besides I will mention species from Curaçao already present in the collections of the Zoological Museum at Amsterdam. The majority of these species were collected alive and all of them belong to the littoral zone stretching from high-water-mark to about one fathom. and MOLENGRAAFF fill each other's so The researches by BOEKE, VAN DER HORST up gaps, that of molluscs this combination has given us a fairly representative collection littoral of Curagao. The results of their investigations were kindly presented to the Zoological Museum of the Amsterdam University. Ï had the pleasure to study them there at the suggestion of its former Director, Prof. Dr. M. WEBER, under the friendly supervision of the present Director, Dr. L. F. DE BEAUFORT, and frequently consulting the rich collections of the Museum and the valuable library of the Royal remember the Zoological Society „Natura Artis Magistra" in Amsterdam. I gratefully advice given to me by Dr. VAN DER HORST on different occasions. First of all follows an enumeration of the principal literature referring to the marine molluscan fauna of the island and the surrounding district in general. For information concerning special genera or species I quoted the different papers in the systematic part referring to the species considered. Synonymy is limited to the original references and to those which served to identify the species, generally TRYON-PILSBRY, Manuel of Conchology. have been collected. The Of the class of Scaphopoda no specimens Amphineura, Cephalopoda as have been or will be treated other in this well as the Gastropoda Opisthobranchia by specialists Journal. For details about the different localities 1 may refer to Dr. VAN DER HORST'S „Narrative of the and short of localities" tot de Dierkunde, Afl. XXIII, 1924, voyage description (Bijdragen pag. 1—12). T. Director of Salm's Instrument Stores The photographs were kindly taken by Mr. WESTERDIJK, Ltd. Amsterdam. BIBLIOGRAPHY. AGASSIZ, A., Three cruises of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer Blake 1877—1880. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 14, 1888 and Vol. 15, 1889. F. A list of the BAKER, C., parial marine mollusca of San Salvador, The Nautilus, Vol. 17, 1903, pag. 57. betreffende BOEKE, J-, Rapport een voorloopig onderzoek naar den toestand van de visscherij en de industrie van in de kolonie 1 —200. zeeproducten Curasao, 's Qravenhage, Deel 1, 1907, pag. Downloaded from Brill.com10/07/2021 09:17:17PM via free access 2 BUSH, K. J., Additions to the shallow-water mollusca of Cape Hatteras N. C. dredged by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross in 1883 and 1884. Trans. Conn. Acad. Sciences, Vol. 6, part 2, 1885, pag. 453—480. 62—56 CLENCH, W. J., The marine shells of Sanibel, Florida. The Nautilus, Vol. 37, 1923, pag. with appendix, Ibid., 93—95. Vol. 38, 1925, pag. COCKERELL, T. D. A., A list of the Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, Pteropoda and Nudibranchia of Jamaica, living and fossil. Vol. 103—107 and 113—118. The Nautilus, 7, 1894, pag. pag. of Mexico — DALL, W. H., Reports ön the results of dredging under the supervision of A. Agassiz in the Gulf 1877 examination of 1878 by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake. General conclusions from a preliminary the mollusca. Mus. Vol. 85 — 93. Bull. Comp. Zoology, 6, n°. 3, pag. between List of marine mollusca comprising the quaternary fossils and recent forms from American localities Cape Hatteras and Cape Roque, including the Bermudas. Bull. U. S. Geological Survey, n°. 24, 1885. Coast Steamer Blake. the Mollusca. Bull. Mus. Reports on the results of dredging by the U. S. Survey Report on 171 —318 and Vol. 1—492. Comp. Zool. Vol. 12, 1886, pag. 18, 1889, pag. —— A preliminary Catalogue of the shell-bearing marine Mollusks and Brachiopods of the south-eastern coast of the Un. States. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. n°. 37, 1889. Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. VII. Preliminary report on obtained 1887—1888. Proc. U. Nat. Mus. 1889 the collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda in S. (1890), pag. 219—362. On some marine Mollusca from the south coast of Brazil. The Nautilus, Vol. 5, 1891, pag. 42—44, with appendix Ibid. Vol. 109—111. 6, pag. of Alexander II. Cruise of the steam yacht Wild Ducks in the Bahamas, January—April 1893 in charge Agassiz. Notes on the shells collected. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Vol. 25, 1894, pag. 113—124. 121 —123. — Dr. H. The Vol. 1897, — List of species collected at Bahia, Brazil, by von Ihering. Nautilus, 10, pag. Vol. DALL, W. H. & C. T. SIMPSON, The Mollusca of Porto Rico. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 20,-1900, pag. 351—516. Proc. DALL. W. H., Results of the Branner— Agassiz Expedition to Brazil. V. Mollusks from the vicinity of Pernambuco. Wash. Acad. Vol. 139—147. Sei., 3, 1901, pag. DALL, W. H. & P. BARTSCH, New species of shells from Bermuda. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 40, 1911, pag. 277 —288. Mém. Soc. Zool. Vol. DAUTZENBERG, PH., Croisières du yacht Chazalie dans l'Atlantique, Mollusques. France, 13, 1900, 145—265. pag. —230. Contribution ä la faune malacologique de l'Afrique occidentale. Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux,Vol. 64,1910, pag. 47 marins. Ann. Instit. Monaco, Mission Qruvel sur la cöte occidentale de l'Afrique 1909—1910. Mollusques ocean. 1—111. Vol. 5, 1912, pag. Bermuda Islands. The Nautilus, Vol. 17, 1904, 125 — 130. DAVIS, C. A., Notes on the mollusca of the pag. Bahamas and Cuba. The Nautilus, Vol. 1924, 56—62. EMERY, D. L., Collecting in southern Florida, the 38, pag. found the shores of Trinidad. Ann. GUPPY, R. J. LECHMERE, Notice of some marine shells on Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), Vol. 15, 1875, pag. 50-52. of the Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Philadelphia, HEILPRIN, A., On some new species mollusca from Bermuda Islands. 1889, 141—142. pag. Florida. The Vol. 59—60. HENDERSON, J. B., Marine shells from drift on upper Matecumbe Key, Nautilus, 27, 1913, pag. 129—145. JACOT, A. P., Some marine molluscan shells of Beaufort and vicinity. Journ. Elisha Mitchel Soc. Vol. 36,1921, pag. The Vol. 59—61. Review of marine mollusca found about New York City. Nautilus, 36, 1922, pag. KREBS, H., Remarks on some species of West-Indian marine shells in the cabinet of Amherst College, Mass. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New Vol. York, 8, 1867, pag. 394-398. Catalogue of marine mollusks collected in the Bahama Islands in November 1866. Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, Vol. 427-431. 8, 1867, pag. MöRCH, O. A. L., Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum Occidentalium (imprimis insularum danicarum). Malak. Vol. 45-58 and Vol. 14- 66 and 93 • 123. Blatt. Vol. 22, 1875, pag. 142—184, 23, 1876, pag. 87—143, 24,1877, pag. winters 1891 and 1892. The Vol. NYLANDER, O. O., Collecting shells on the east coast of Florida in the Nautilus, 34, 1921, pag. 119-124. POULSEN, C. M., Catalogue of West-Indian shells in the collections of Dr. C. M. Poulsen of Copenhagen, 1878. P. of I. The Vol. 118—121. REMINGTON, S., Rambles a midshipman Nautilus, 35, 1922, pag. St. Kitts, and at Pensacola, RUSH, W. H., List of species collected on the Islands of St. Thomas, Barbados, Jamaica with The Vol. —70. Florida, prefatory notes. Nautilus, 5, 1891, pag. 65 W.-Indië, —482. SCHEPMAN, M. M., Mollusca van Nederlandsch West-Indië. Encycl. Ned. 1914, pag. 477 On the marine mollusca of Ascension Proc. Zool. Soc. —322. SMITH, E. A., Island. London, 1890, pag. 317 — Marine mollusca of St. Helena. Proc. Zool. Soc. 247—317 —: London, 1890, pag. Soc. 483 —502. Mollusca in H. N. Ridley, Zoology of Fernando Noronha. Journ. Linn. London, Vol. 20, 1890, pag. Further additions to the known marine molluscan fauna of St. Helena. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), Vol. 10, 1892, pag. 129—135. STUDER, TH., Beiträge zur Meeresfauna West-Afrikas. Zool. Anz., Vol. 5, 1882, pag. 333—336 and 351 —356. Vol. 11. 109—132. THIELE, J., Beitrag zur Molluskenfauna West-Indiens. Zool. Jahrb. Suppi., 1910, pag. Downloaded from Brill.com10/07/2021 09:17:17PM via free access 3 SYSTEMATIC PART. GASTROPODA PROSOBRANCHIA. Conus mus Hwass. Conus Hwass in Vol. 630. mus Bruguière, Encycl. Méth. 1, part 2, 1792, pag. Conus Man. of Vol. 72 and 73. mus Tryon, Conch. 6, 1884, pag. 19, pi. 5, fig. 30. IV. 2 in 13. V. 6 1 Caracasbay, 1920, spec.; coral, 1920, spec.; 1923, spec. 14. V. 2 Westpunt, 1920, spec. 7 Spanish Bay, 1921, spec. At the entrance to Spanish Water Mr. MOLENQRAAFF collected another specimen which belongs the Man. }o variety roseus Lamarck (TRYON, of Conch. Vol. 6, 1884, pag. 20, pi. 5, fig. 73). Conus nebulosus Solander. Conus nebulosus (Solander) Hwass in Bruguière, Encycl. Méth. Vol. 2, part 1, 1792, pag. 607. Conus nebulosus Man. of Conch. Vol. 31—34. Tryon, 6, 1884, pag. 28, pi. 7, fig. 2 Curasao, spec. 2 Caracasbay, 1921, spec. Conus testudinarius Martini. 605. Conus testudinarius Martini, Conch. Cab. Vol. 2, 1773, pag. 250, pi. 55, fig.